How to Use vowel in a Sentence

vowel

noun

• Instruments are played to match the French vowel sounds of the text.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2021
• The Clue: This word starts with a consonant and ends with a vowel.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2023
• Wheel of Fortune is ready to take a new vowel salesman for a spin.
  — Vulture, 27 June 2023
• The findings have to do with the slight movement of the tongue when people pronounce vowels.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
• The Clue: This word has more consonants than vowels in it.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• The singing of Latin brought purer vowels into the King’s sound, which was pleasing.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• The airline worker in turn says there are too many vowels in his name, and compares him to a mob piece.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2018
• Some sang in close harmony, some sang long vowels, like a bed of strings.
  — National Geographic, 24 July 2019
• The games take on a Hatfield vs. McCoys vibe, except all the players’ names end in a vowel.
  — Lenny Megliola, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
• Women’s names, for instance, are longer, and are more likely to end in a vowel sound.
  — Lisa Ward, WSJ, 21 May 2021
• The rule is that a precedes consonant sounds and an precedes vowel sounds — a, e, i, o and u.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021
• What defeats Hughes is not her short game so much as the fade of her long and lofted vowels.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2019
• If a sound segment consisted of just one vowel, the time after the beat was quite short.
  — Catherine Matacic, Science | AAAS, 24 Apr. 2018
• If not, the site with more vowels than consonants in its name is still great for a relaxing round of golf.
  — Al Petersen, Orange County Register, 1 Mar. 2017
• The tongues of native New Yorkers land heavy on consonants, and on vowels, too.
  — Mark Warren, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2017
• According to Kyr, in the last section, the duo sings pure vowels that have no concrete meaning.
  — James Bash | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2019
• The Clue: This word ends in a letter that can function as either a vowel or a consonant.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2022
• Our first puzzle challenged readers to figure out which one of these three vowel-rich words is the best first guess.
  — Pradeep Mutalik, Quanta Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
• The strategy seems to make sense: Figure out the vowels, and the other letters will fall into place.
  — Aatish Bhatia, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
• Blues left me with 128 remaining words and one vowel in yellow.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• My opening guess here got me a green on the left word and, more crucially, the letter ‘O’ which ends up being the main vowel across both words.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• For example, Markle’s vowels might still sound American, but the lilt of the sentence might be less so.
  — Cari Romm, The Cut, 10 July 2018
• In ordinary tonal speech, the vocal cords make the pitch modulations that form the tones while the front of the mouth forms much of the vowel and consonant sounds.
  — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2021
• Elevate your soft pal-ate (the back of the roof of your mouth)and your uvula (the fleshy protrusion that hangs from your soft palate) while making the vowel sound a.
  — Paul Kita, Men's Health, 15 Dec. 2022
• Sadly, though, French has changed my vowels and endo has changed my bowels.
  — Kristina Kasparian, Longreads, 6 Feb. 2024
• On the other hand, the Loser Community has risen admirably to the challenge; words don’t have to have lots of vowels.
  — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2019
• The analysis revealed the shape of the roof of the mouth affects how people pronounce vowel sounds, but only to a slight degree.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 23 Aug. 2019
• The jury is out on whether dating apps like Happn and Grindr are bad for society or simply bad for the future of vowels.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
• On both of his catches, Sanu was rewarded by the home crowd with chants of his last name, heavy emphasis on the final vowel.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• The priest who once spoke and sang his daily rituals produced just a single vowel sound, somewhere between the e and a sounds in the words bed and bad.
  — Time, 23 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024